Nature's Changes

III.

NATURE.

I.

NATURE'S CHANGES.

THE springtime's pallid landscape

      Will glow like bright bouquet,

Though drifted deep in parian

      The village lies to-day.

The lilacs, bending many a year,

      With purple load will hang;

The bees will not forget the tune

      Their old forefathers sang.

The rose will redden in the bog,

      The aster on the hill

Her everlasting fashion set,

      And covenant gentians frill,

Till summer folds her miracle

      As women do their gown,

Or priests adjust the symbols

      When sacrament is done.